"Lilly S." wrote:
>
> DOes it
> really matter in the end what version I have?
I don't really think it does.
I use Debian mostly because my most handy helper (my husband)
uses Debian.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion
t; Anyone have any ideas?
What sort of 'refuses to allow'?
What (if any) error messages do you receive?
What (if anything) is in logs?
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Free
s no authority to make ME use programs
or protocols.
Jenn V.
(The Australian government, yes. The US? No.)
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
JoAnne Abbott wrote:
> Jenn V wrote:
> > Could you define the difference between a protocol and a standard?
>
> A protocol is a generalised consensus of the way something is done.
>
> A standard is so many meters, liters or lines of code.
Sorry, I disagree with
over to the IPV6 network and leave the commercial crud
on the 'old' internet
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http:/
profile)
So writing Java which works for Browser A doesn't mean it necessarily
works for Browser B and we're right back into platform dependance
again.
Le sigh.
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
aware that it can be made to run under SSH, so
you may want to poke holes there as well.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman
sole.
Return with Ctrl-F7.
3. Many - not all, but many - window managers have an 'exit the
window manager' option.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.
Anne Forker wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> someone listening here who has experience in managing mailing lists and
> may give me some hints or some URLs to get an introductory reading
http://infotrope.net/writing/mladvice/ is the best article I know
of about managing mailing
wirren wrote:
>
> I was trying to look up some stuff about RFC and
> internic came back as 'not found'...?
What URL did you type in? (That sort of information helps us
answer these questions.)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion
f you don't want to look
> it up) That would be a great help to the person/people working on
> it; they won't have to sift through their emails to find the
> questions.
>
> I suspect Jenn wouldn't mind people doing this for the other faqs
> either.
Not in the leas
ot;.
Heh. The only penalty is that I grab Lilly by the shoulders and
say 'wanna help develop the Techtalk FAQ?'
So, Lilly...
*grab* "Wanna help develop the Techtalk FAQ?"
(Well, if Laurel doesn't mind. Do you mind, Laurel?)
Jenn V.
--
"We&#
t the current FAQ
is to learn how to use CVS. Sourceforge has adequate documentation
on that. (But only 'adequate', dammit.)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http
the permissions
were before I changed anything, then think about who is using
the file and for what. Plot the permissions needed from the POV
of owner, group, and all.
I hope this was helpful, even though it's not what was asked
for.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant
o my document.
> Wild guess here... zsh and ksh have different initialization files,
Possibility: you'd aliased 'vi' to 'vim' and were actually using
vim, but when you switched shells the alias didn't come with you
and now you're using vi?
Just a wild-a
Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
>
> There are, as usual, several options in the linux on a PPC mac
> department :o)
Thank you, Nicole and Erin. I've forwarded your answers to
my friend.
I appreciate this. :)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fus
ouldn't
find any appropriate HOWTOs. :/
Advice, please?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefal
nes.
I add them to /etc/hosts.
This is probably not technically 'good' sysadminning, but it works
for me.
(note: I use Debian, in case this is relevent.)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
n easy
>way to either a) disable the auto disconnect feature or b)extend that to a more
>reasonable time constraint (20-30 minutes would be fine).
While I don't know wvdial, this is not a common feature of dialling
programs.
It is, however, occasionally found in ISPs or proxy servers.
real-world analogy would be that mailman is the franking machine and
the 'mail-merge' program, but you still wind up holding a bunch of
envelopes and taking them to the post office.
Sendmail is the post office. (So's smail, postfix, etc..)
So yes, you need an actual mailer.
Jenn
efinately enough for amateur.
Does that help at all?
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sime
I (Jenn V) wrote:
> I'm just going to do a web-search for a Mandrake 6.0 HowTo for modems. I
> don't know Mandrake at all, but I'm told it's an easy one to use.
> (and just as I'm about to do this, my link gives trouble. Wheee. Life is
> giving me a de
s. I
don't know Mandrake at all, but I'm told it's an easy one to use.
(and just as I'm about to do this, my link gives trouble. Wheee. Life is
giving me a demonstration of your frustration!)
I suspect that 'kppp' or 'pppd' will solve your problems. An
hich someone else mentioned) or
ftp. (ncftp is my favourite).
There's lots of ways.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Ve
//www.ldp.org/ and http://www.oswg.org/
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL
thernet card or ppp0 for a ppp connection) with
> ifconfig.
As for how a machine knows IP addresses without using a DNS, the /etc/hosts
file (Debian distribution) records a lot of IPs.
In Debian, at least, the most critical IP addresses are entered during the
installation.
Jenn V.
--
s and not necessarily helpful - but it gives an
idea of where to start debugging.
Jenn V.
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This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.p
s in advance
> Sri
>
> ___
> techtalk mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
See this footer on the end of every email? That's the URL of the website.
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reacto
GeekGrrl wrote:
>
> Okay, the EOF comes from these statements:
>
> print <<"EOF";
> html blablahblaah
> EOF
>
> This means print all text from the print statement until the text matchs
> "EOF"
EOF typically stands for 'End of File&#x
n IP addresses, gateways, etc'.
Having gotten the Linux box running, this shouldn't be too hard. :) It's
a fill-in-form.
There's /some/ things Windows does reasonably well.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women&#
elpful to be told 'I think I saw
something about that in '
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman
lease help.
curses.h used to be the default cursor package, but that was a long time
ago.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jen
Does anyone know of hardware-comparison or hardware-review sites which
cover printers?
We need to replace our little printer, and I'd like to do a comparison of
the available range before buying.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
.)
Not a project I'm up for at the moment - but I thought I'd mention
it in case any of our coders are.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, F
for me to use on a daily basis.
OTOH, I run the pair on a daily basis, and so does Dancer. The
only thing that crashes is Netscrape, and that only occasionally
- mostly when it runs javascript it doesn't like.
... waiting for Mozilla ...
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the
"Chris R." wrote:
>
> This might sound impossible, but does anyone know how I can pick up mail
> from a shell account through windows.
Alternatively you can simply telnet or ssh into your shell account
and use mutt, elm or some other mail package.
Jenn V.
--
&
agment software. Typical
> example is Floodgate.
Ah. That, I can't help with. (And I don't know Floodgate from
a bar of soap, which is why I got it wrong.)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Sriram-HO wrote:
>
> Is there any bandwidth management software for Linux available? Something
> like Floodgate?
Not sure - I do know that Dancer is constantly tweaking
/something/ to ensure that large downloads don't interfere
with someone MUSHing...
(we share a 28.8. It matt
al charity sysadminning stuff - even as a junior tech. And
let them know you're after work. A note in the .sig can work. :) )
Good luck.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freef
ts which deal with Lisp.
* take thyself unto the 'net, yeah even unto the place known as
'google', or perhaps unto 'savvysearch'.
A quick google search revealed several tutorials. A quick search
of Amazon.com (I know, I know) revealed lots of books.
I can't recomm
27;s a
> thread somewhere, let me know.. I'll go searching for it.
Post to the list. I'll clip the results and tuck them into one
of the FAQs.
You're not stupid - I don't know either (because I haven't done the
research).
Jenn V.
--
"We're repair
l much
more in control - they don't panic when they know they can
/do/ something. And they get so enthusiastic when they know
they've been helpful. :)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
rs/ to be going to stdin somehow. If we can
see the pppd command, we might be able to figure out how.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
a) throw to someone else on this list
b) recommend you subscribe to the squid list and ask there
and/or
c) suggest the dread phrase that starts with 'read' and ends with 'manual'.
Sorry.
If the question is still standing after I've slept, I may go look.
But I don&#
t /really/ have 'myhost.mydomain.com' in your actual
config file, do you? You've replaced that with the address of
your intended parent and sibling proxies, haven't you?
3. If you don't want peer proxies, comment the lines out.
Jenn V.
--
"We're
pilation. Eat a bowlful, store remainder in freezer.
That limits other housekeeping to dust & dirt control, basically.
Which is annoying, but is also what maid services most commonly do.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is wome
Shad Young wrote:
>
> Heh heh. I take it I am not he only one without a solution to my server
> tunings?
Speaking only for myself, I don't know the answers nor do I have
any specific places to look, for the questions you asked. Sorry.
Not ignoring you, just ignorant
d it's able to render almost all pages I've come
> across. You might want to check your HTML.
Major hint: Mozilla Milestone-anything is still VERY very pre-alpha.
Expect it to choke on a hell of a lot.
Wait for the beta, at least, before you go 'eek'.
Jenn V.
--
x27;s incredible what a difference it makes. I set my browser to
override font instructions.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[
close to the screen.
... and if you're astigmatic, keratonic AND longsighted (like me)
what do you do?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.c
ing a firewall example) will show you how to do this.
Again, not something I've done enough of to give you instructions
myself, alas, but at least I've told you what it's called. :)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is
ll to
autologin, either. Just more blathering and stating obvious potential
solutions that limit potential hassles...
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purr
7;t find pony. Does anyone know if I
> am missing something here??.
Set up your gateway as an MX host for pony.ip-solutions.net.
That should get mail for pony sent to your gateway, which
itself should know where pony is.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fu
their helpdesk? If it's good, start talking to
them. If it's lousy, we'll rack our brains for other possible problems at
this end.
If you're not gatewaying through the remote IP address, or don't know what
gatewaying is, say so and someone here will probably have told
supports it.
That explains it. Dancer's computer is the one with the CD burner - mine is
just a reader. (And an 8X at that - we haven't bothered upgrading the
CDroms.)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!&q
7;t need an IDE driver in this situation.
In that case, I don't use 'most Linux-based CD-R software' - because I've
never faced this situation. Maybe the fact that I've never run into it is a
Debian thing? Perhaps?
You live and learn. :)
Jenn V.
--
"We're re
tech minds are. :)
2. I don't understand this. You say it's an IDE drive, so you DISABLED the
IDE? Um. Why? Wouldn't this be the most logical place for your problem to
be?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women'
Subba Rao wrote:
>
> Are there any incompatiblities between ssh1 and ssh2, clients and servers?
Yes. You can't ssh2 to an ssh1 server. (I know. I tried.)
Try 'ssh1 remotehost'. That worked for me.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nucl
is identified. Should
the others?
> . /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail start
> . /etc/rc.d/rc.samba
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vespe
"Wendt,Andrew" wrote:
>
> Eek. I cannot understand why people have black letters on a light background
> for viewing text...
> What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-)
Black on white, always. White on black is literally painful!
For me.
dd that I have three significant vision problems in one eye, and none in
the other, and I really expect that noone sees the world the way I do!)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Fre
their preferred 'reply' button. And given that some people WANT to get
the duplicate mail, and some don't, it's impossible for them to please
everyone. :/
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women'
e' typically - if I know I'm planning to search a man page I pipe
it through less. I can save myself a step now. :)
There's other tidbits of info in this that I didn't know. So .. thank you.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear f
o pass on the
information and /then/ say 'here's how I found it'.
> If that's the philosophy of the list, again, please update the charter
> and I will unsubscribe.
Nope. Just don't frighten the newbies off while we're teaching them.
Alas, 'man&
e wierd message is and ask what it means. :)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.co
Kathy Hargreaves wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if Red Hat 5.2 has any Y2K problems?
>
> Also, I seem to remember there's a way to find out how large a disk I
> have without having to open my box and look at it. Anyone?
Try the command df
Jenn V.
--
"We're r
Robert Kiesling wrote:
>
> "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But yes, sysadminning requires a 'never act in panic' state of
> > mind.
>
> Does that mean it's like being married?
Hmm. Interesting question.
I think being married is
mount
of time you think you'll need. You'll wind up using it.
But only in emergencies. If you do it all the time, people assume
you'll use half your estimate.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!&
be a multiuser
system. This makes its core design quite different from basically
single-user OSs. Exactly how is probably beyond the scope of a
single email!
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix
public for others and pass on the information.
Um.
Actually, just because MacMillan choose to put them on their own
site, doesn't mean it's legal to put them on other sites.
Unless MacMillan specifically states that it is, it probably isn't.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairin
Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>
>
> Telsa (who does have reasons for reporting trivia, honest!)
>
Oh hell yes. If noone reports the trivia, it doesn't get fixed.
And so much of the trivia is a two-second job for the right
person, and a two-hour job for anyone else.
Jenn V.
--
Cat wrote:
>
> Speaking of vi and terms, I have a question. What makes it so vi messes
> up on some servers only some of the time?
It /sounds/ like a termtype problem - curses misinterpreting
your terminal window.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuc
off long enough for its ram to clear - twenty seconds
should be enough)? Have you checked your initialisation
string against the modem's manual/web page to ensure that
it says what you think it says?
One of these questions should give you a further avenue of
investigation, if nothing el
uot; mail domain and can setup any number of accounts
> if I wish.
Ditto with SMTP, actually. Which is what Laurel had indicated
as the alternative format for mail servers. (As opposed to clients)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
Thi
these/ people.
You can POP across the net - it doesn't matter /where/ you
dialled up - but if you use a 'wrong' mail server that is
what's likely to cause the 'we do not relay' response.
(mail servers used to relay for each other, but with the
advent of so m
Tech Docs wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> what does export Pine do?
>
> When I say Pine in the command prompt on the telnet, nothing happens at all.
> I think there is something more.
Lower case p?
Maybe it's not installed on that server.
Try 'man pine' or 'lo
s your home domain match that? How about your home email
address?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTEC
Clint Forgy wrote:
>
> J B wrote:
> >
> > i must apologize for this posti accidentally hit the wrong button...
>
> It's ok. Just make sure you do it more often :)
But not to techtalk. Grrltalk is more appropriate for jokes.
(just trying to keep topics a
believe they're /supposed/ to function properly most of the
time, Telsa...
Strange concept, isn't it?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/
c/X11.
Every time I set up X I wind up scouring through that directory
AGAIN to try to sort things out. I keep forgetting in the interval.
Sorry.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, F
on question
on the lists..
(Jenn pauses, makes a note to add that to the FAQ)
... so we want to know which places are and aren't good ones
for that. You've helped US, too!
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's
Over here (Australia), at least, you'd have a very VERY strong
case to take to Small Claims - and the company would know it. In
similar situations, I've never had to go that far. Just to inform
the manager that _I_ know it, by mannerism and polite and repeated
stating of the problem and
community ISP at one
point, and we used to use a modem that was no longer reliable in
the modem bank but if you just power cycled it when it froze it
was ok.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!&qu
7;s really
strange behaviour to find as the result of a hack.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ing 'no images or large
attachments' mailing list one, once the HTML-mailers started to show up.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
d their
> webpages)
> do you know of a shell
> which would enable user to upload this while not giving telnet access ??
I just checked our /etc/passwd. We use /bin/true
(I knew /bin/false was close to the solution!)
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant l
tion since i don't know how to build such
> apps (i don't know how to code be it in C/C++).
Shellscript would work too. Hm. How about 'cp /bin/false /bin/fakeshell'?
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's
coder wrote:
>
> ad infinitum. Obviously a script to do this would be usefull, however I
> dont have one at my disposal, and writing code after 4am violates some
> law of nature... ;)
I thought it was a law of nature that you only /really/ start
getting into coding after 4a
hing that comes to mind) is
head -[whatever] [tarfile] > [storefile]
(See 'man head' for more information on what head does - basically,
I'm proposing the 'take the first however-many-bytes and shove them
into a storagefile' solution.)
There has to be a more elegant way
n just set the ppp script to run on startup and remain up
the whole time the machine is booted...
Jenn V.
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This is women's work!"
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